Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defended stiff courses and hard examinations, emphasizing concentration and pointing to the tendency to take too many survey courses as of value only in "Twenty Questions." Lately he has been making a plea for a deeper study of History and has proposed a non-departmental, non - credit, extra - curricula course in American History to "Inoculate the student body with educational virus...
...American Society for the Control of Cancer, remembering that just after he got out of college he spent four years with the Harvard Cancer Commission, that he was one of the world's authorities on the inherited susceptibility to cancer and a good executive wanting an extra job, hired him as managing director. The Society pays him $9,000 a year (out of which he must pay his traveling expenses), does not object to his work at Jackson Memorial. This renewed security enabled Dr. Little to marry a Phi Beta Kappa and Master of Arts who had been...
Marvin Mclntyre, the President's secretary, wanted the job but was too intimate with shipping lobbyists. Finally the President turned to his most effective and trusted extra-Cabinet friend, red-headed Joe Kennedy. Every night for two weeks a White House limousine met Joe Kennedy as he landed from Manhattan at the Washington Airport, whisked him off to be cajoled by that persuasive pleader, Franklin Roosevelt. As a final objection to being given the job, reluctant Joe Kennedy revealed that he has 1,100 shares of Todd Shipbuilding Corp. stock. Would not that prevent his choice? The President...
Perhaps it is because the action is not fast enough for melodrama, and because there is a hint of anticlimax in the ending. It gradually gathers speed, works up to its climax, and then when the point is made an extra and somewhat irrelevant scene is added by way of explanation...
...University of Colorado team, to enter the lists against Arthur W. Page '40, undefeated Yardling grappler. Preliminary to meeting Seymour J. Rubin 2L, who took the title in the 135-pound division last year, William T. Hull '40 defeated William H. Fain '39 in a seesaw extra period encounter...